UPDATE: One More Reason to Eliminate the EAC

Published
Tue, May 24 2011 12:57 PM

As posted
yesterday, there is a bill to eliminate the Election Assistance Commission. One
of the reasons the agency has undergone such strict scrutiny is because of a
high profiling hiring scandal. Well, it has come to light that the Election
Assistance Commission has another high profile hiring scandal.

During the prospective General Counsel’s interview, it
became clear that Commissioner Gracia Hillman’s questioning showed that she had
issues with the applicant being a naval reserve officer. Hillman started asking
detailed questions about his military service. According to the attorney,
Hillman’s questioning showed that she believed “that no military reservist
could ever be ‘objectively’ involved with voting issues due to some imaginary
legal conflict under attorney bar requirements,” Hillman’s questions showed
that the lawyer’s military service was “a negative in her eyes and [she] sought
to convey these negative ramifications to the other Commissioners and staff
present.”

Making an even stronger case for eliminating the Election
Assistance Commission which Rep. Gregg Harper described as “the epitome of
‘business as usual’ in Washington.”